More RSSBandit experience
Some more about my experience with RSS Bandit. Earlier comments here.
- I'm not quite clear on how the user interface is responding. Sometimes I will select a folder/category that has updated feeds, and I will get a view that lists just the new entries. Other times the newspaper will show both new and old entries. The topic list always shows both the new and old.
- One can create search folders to display ONLY unread messages, for example.
- It seems slow, but this is my complaint with many of these apps. Maybe I just read too many feeds. Marking about 80 unread items read (when in the "unread view") took quite a while. Even 28 unread items took 10-15 seconds to "process." This seems to be a memory issue, because the next time I hit "mark all read" in the same usage session, it is much faster.
- There seems to be no easy way to tell the software that I'm offline and to not bother downloading.
- When it's checking feeds, it eats a lot of resources. So much so, that I can't even scroll the current window, much less select a new feed to read. (Outlook has been doing the same thing to me lately.)
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Lumpy said:
I feel you on the whole information overload thing and feed addiction. For what it is worth, I like RSS owl (RSSowl.org). It takes a few seconds to load on my old beast but it works very well once it loads and nicely saves things for offline reading as well.
When I must use an online reader, as I must now, I still use bloglines mainly because of doppler's autosynch with it's podcast folder.
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Eating up memory is my main complaint with RSS Bandit, an aggregator I was otherwise satisfied with. But having everything lock up when it started to grind was just too frustrating.
I've gone over to GreatNews, which plays well with Bloglines.